Age of Conan

He used to post here and on the official site all the time but I haven't seen anything from him for ages.  Perhaps he's happily playing beta.  Maybe he lost interest in AoC.  Maybe he gave up on mmorpgs entirely.  Maybe he was abducted by aliens.

Just sort of wondering.  I challenged him to sort of a bet although he might not remember and I don't think he ever officially agreed to it.

Originally posted by Neanderthal

He used to post here and on the official site all the time but I haven't seen anything from him for ages.  Perhaps he's happily playing beta.  Maybe he lost interest in AoC.  Maybe he gave up on mmorpgs entirely.  Maybe he was abducted by aliens.

Just sort of wondering.  I challenged him to sort of a bet although he might not remember and I don't think he ever officially agreed to it.

if hes not playing Conan in the beta phase, we can only muster a conclusion that hes with the donut ship right now since theres no person who could just "give up" on mmorpg's or even less on Age of Conan

I believe he was banned from the forums. Sure, he seemed reasonably intelligent and so forth, but he was a loose-cannon, hot-tempered and so forth.

oh he is still around ;)

Sturmrabe was banned on the official forums after he made this thread:
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=42677

He still posts in his guild's forum, but I'm not sure if he's banned on these forums or not.

Originally posted by throckmorton

Sturmrabe was banned on the official forums after he made this thread:
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=42677

He still posts in his guild's forum, but I'm not sure if he's banned on these forums or not.

Hey Avery, tell him I was thinking of him will you?  And tell him not to let his head explode or anything drastic like that.

Originally posted by throckmorton

Sturmrabe was banned on the official forums after he made this thread:
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=42677

He still posts in his guild's forum, but I'm not sure if he's banned on these forums or not.

REH certainly had his influences in people like Jack London, Burroughs, various pulp stories and perhaps Dunsany.  But he certainly did not take "whatever was around"  he had a very serious passion for history and the celts and proto celts.  He is well known as  the founders of the sword and sorcery genre and clearly declined to use the "traditional" folklore which he was certainly aware of and as a contemporary of Tolkein (at the time of the Hobbit) was currently in use.

I agree with his post it shows a clear lack of understanding.  If they said the same thing about Roger Zelazny in reference to the Amber series I would say the same thing, even though since that series deals with a potentially infinite number of worlds such things can exist it clearly misses the point of the whole thing.

All authors borrow and are influenced by the current environment, but there is certainly no doubt that REH came up with his own quite unique series and imprinted an indeliable and unique flavor on it.   Conan is harsh and fantastic, but at its heart its about humans.  Its pulp, its low fantasy, its film noir.  Its both brutal and low but cunning and canny.  There have been very few protagonists like Conan and that is the heart of the series.  And shapes the parameters of the whole world.  How could you have elves and huge worms that some country was constantly fighting in a world like Conan's where magic is rare and generally evil and mistrusted.  Sure magic as a plot device in the 20's and 30's was more of a mysterious thing rather than a common powerful force such as it is in modern fantasy.  But that is one of important characteristics of Conan as a character and a Barbarian.

Its such a hallmark that even Thundarr the Barbarian shares it in that awesome 80's cartoon.

I hope that Dev statement does not come from the fact that REH and Lovecraft re-used each others cosmology.  REH and Lovecraft were good friends with a rich a correspondance and they purposely used each other cosmology to have continuity over different historical periods.  Further Derleth, after HPL's death, continued to co-opt all sorts of things even vaguely related to any HPL stuff and this had nothing to do with REH.

But that statement kind of basically confirms what I figured their attitude was from the beginning.

Hey Neanderthal I'll forward this thread onto him, maybe he will reply.

In one of 'Wexx's' unofficial questionnaires Sturm was one of the most named person of the forum that you would like to kill in game. haha!

Yea he did recieve a ban here and on the official forum at some point I think that the expiry is up for both maybe.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Hey Neanderthal I'll forward this thread onto him, maybe he will reply.

In one of 'Wexx's' unofficial questionnaires Sturm was one of the most named person of the forum that you would like to kill in game. haha!

Yea he did recieve a ban here and on the official forum at some point I think that the expiry is up for both maybe.

pretty sure that wasn't his first ban from the official forums either.